# What is the worst damage that Godzilla has taken? (and survived)
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**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937 "2019-07-31T17:27:10Z")
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### Author:  [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/1 "2019-07-31T17:27:10Z")
I know that the first Godzilla (1954) was killed by the oxygen destroyer. (Reduced to bones, if I’m recalling correctly.)
There are a bunch of Godzilla movies that I have not seen – so I’m asking you Dopers!
What is the worst damage that the big ol’ beastie has come back from?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/2 "2019-07-31T17:45:18Z")
In the most recent film he…
is “killed” by an oxygen destroyer but actually retreats back to his undersea home and is revived from almost-near-99.99% death by the good guys
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/3 "2019-07-31T18:22:37Z")
Bad reviews.
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### Author:  [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/4 "2019-07-31T18:41:56Z")
_The Smog Monster_
I mean, the movie itself. Big G wasn’t hurt that badly by Hedorah, the actual _kaiju._ But that movie nearly killed the franchise. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/5 "2019-07-31T19:44:43Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#):
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> I know that the first Godzilla (1954) was killed by the oxygen destroyer. (Reduced to bones, if I’m recalling correctly.)
>
> There are a bunch of Godzilla movies that I have not seen – so I’m asking you Dopers!
> What is the worst damage that the big ol’ beastie has come back from?
…and then the bones dissolved. There was nothing left of the Big G after that.
I think of that Oxygen Destroyer every time I see those TV ads for the capsule medication “with laser-drilled holes”. It looks as if they’re miniature Oxygen Destroyers made to dissolve the mini-Godzillas in your stomach that are causing you gastric distress. Heartburn, you know.
>
https://evil.fandom.com/wiki/Oxygen\_Destroyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ens8TSMuj0
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/6 "2019-07-31T19:56:35Z")
Godzilla’s fate at the end of the first few movies:
**Godzilla** – dissolved
**Gigantis the Fire Monster (Godzilla Raids Again)** – buried in a mountain of ice
**King Kong vs. Godzilla** – disappears under the water, doesn’t come up. Apparently he just gets buried in the mud.
**Godzilla vs. the Thing/Godzilla vs. Mothra** – wrapped up in a giant cocoon by the Mothra twin caterpillars, he drops into the ocean again.
**Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster** – Godzilla just wanders off
**Monster Zero/ Invasion of the Astro-Monster** – Godzilla still at large
**Ebirah/Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster** – Godzilla still at large
**Son of Godzilla** – Godzilla and son frozen under snow and hibernate on what apparently becomes Monster Island
**Destroy All Monsters** – Godzilla (voluntarily, apparently) returns to Monster Island
**All Monsters Attack/Godzilla’s Revenge** – Godzilla at large
**Godzilla vs. Hedorah/Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster** – Godzilla at large
**Godzilla vs. Gigan** – Godzilla back on Monster Island
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### Author:  [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/7 "2019-07-31T20:05:34Z")
_Godzilla vs. Destoroyah_ (1995)
Glowing red and due for a imminent meltdown, Godzilla battles a monster somehow spawned by the Oxygen Destroyer.
Let’s just say the Big G survives at least one of these threats.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/8 "2019-07-31T20:49:56Z")
Godzooky.
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### Author:  [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/9 "2019-07-31T22:11:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Bad reviews.
Points.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/10 "2019-08-01T13:59:44Z")
> [@Dropo](#):
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> _Godzilla vs. Destoroyah_ (1995)
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> Glowing red and due for a imminent meltdown, Godzilla battles a monster somehow spawned by the Oxygen Destroyer.
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> Let’s just say the Big G survives at least one of these threats.
He actually doesn’t. He melts down and dies but the franchise is carried on by Godzilla Junior who is in the movie, killed, brought back to life and is seen at the end of the movie.
Are we counting times where he’s died then comes back to life? That’s happened a time or two thanks to radiation and/or Rodan.
As for the OP’s question, it kinda depends. You can’t say anything nuclear since he feeds on that, so it’d be some kind of monster fight. Gidorah is his strongest enemy so I’ll go with an assault by him.
Although there’s one of the movies, I can’t remember which (against Gigan I want to say?) where Godzilla gets pretty bloodied up…he survived that.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/11 "2019-08-01T14:29:36Z")
Terror of Mechagodzilla sees him pretty heftily pounded, drawing blood when the Robot goes weapons free on him. Then he gets buried alive. Comes back, rips off Mechagodzilla’s head to find a more powerful weapon underneath that hurts him (and sets him on fire). Godzilla only wins because the remote brain (in a cyborg) gets destroyed.
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/12 "2019-08-01T23:58:45Z")
I’d just like to take a moment to remind you all that Gojira is VERY real. It is the country of Japan that is a work of fiction.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/13 "2019-08-02T13:26:55Z")
That’s not true, and you know it. Japan doesn’t exist, but it’s not fiction. It _used_ to exist. Before, you know, it got destroyed. By Godzilla.
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/14 "2019-08-02T14:23:32Z")
Oh, no!
There goes Tokyo!
Go, go, Godzilla!
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### Author:  [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-damage-that-godzilla-has-taken-and-survived/837937/15 "2019-08-02T15:07:02Z")
Godzilla most grievous injuries mostly occured in official manga I’d imagine, where sufficiently competent artists can do with just ink what film cannot even with an excessive budget.
There are a lot official Godzilla manga, so start digging!